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Art Quotes
"I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist."
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"Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents."
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"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see."
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"I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature."
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"We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him."
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"Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going."
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"If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right."
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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
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"Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me."
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"Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama."
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"The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste."
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"Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have."
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"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
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"I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years."
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"Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in."
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"We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change."
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"He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming."
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"Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists."
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"Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line."
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"Ballet shoes... I cannot play with them like they're toys. But when the music is playing they get deep on my toes."
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"All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?"
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"I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am."
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"I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible."
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"Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe."
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"It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work."
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"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."
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"Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal."
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"This world has need of song and sword."
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"In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest."
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